Wooden chest for many as a piece of furniture is associated primarily with fairy tales. The hut draws imagination for us, in which there are wide benches, a huge wooden table, not far from a sideboard, a spinning wheel and certainly it, a chest in which all the most valuable things have always been kept. Today we imagine that the traditions of days past are stored there. Although this does not in the least prevent the wooden chest from being used as modern furniture. A mysterious image will give your home a special flavor, as well as a light shade of antiquity.
Old-fashioned wooden trunks are considered for good reason the brightest pieces of antique furniture. They were popular in ancient Egypt as early as the 13th century. This country was the birthplace, as it seems, of such a Russian interior item of a peasant hut. The masters from Russia, going to work in Byzantium, gradually adopted European traditions, presenting a wooden chest to their culture.
Gradually, he acquired his unique qualities and took the place of the keeper of the life of the whole family in the hut. It contained dowry, money, clothes, as well as various household trifles. In Russia, a fire was a frequent occurrence. But even in these situations, the chest made it possible to preserve family values, since it could be easily taken out of the burning hut by the handles.
In Russia, 2 types of chests became widespread, one of them with a convex hinged lid, the second with a flat one. There were also small models resembling caskets; the larger ones were intended for storing clothes, food. For strength, they were bound by strips of iron. It is also worth noting that the wealth of the family was measured by the number of chests.
Not everyone knows that a chest is a prototype of a valise, chest of drawers, casket, suitcase, table, wardrobe, and also a safe. "Extending" from the number of things, he turned into a modern closet. Due to this, now minimalism reigns in many apartments - wardrobes take up little space, and the chest is even smaller. Thus, it was a wooden chest that solved the problem of compact storage of various things.
Some professions, which were always considered not related to furniture, are also associated with it. Once there was a specialty - a stacker of clothes in chests. So, one of them was the Frenchman Louis Vuitton, still unknown to the whole world. In this case, he became a real professional, since only Louis knew how to put clothes in such a way that subsequently there was not a single fold. Of course, his popularity did not begin with this, but the chest occupies a certain place in the fate of the greatest designer. It was he who turned this thing into camping furniture - travel bags and suitcases were created in his image.
Wooden chest made of appropriate material. More precisely - from oak, but sometimes from birch, although the furniture of the peasants was made of the cheapest types of wood. The best Russian forest was Vologda. From the larch that grew in those forests, they made stunning chests in which moth never appeared.
They are not a thing of the past - today designers work quite often on the interior of rooms in the traditional Russian style. Accordingly, the chest is one of its main attributes. In such an interior, naturalness is an unwritten rule, since all furniture consists only of natural natural materials. A chest, a buffet, benches, a fireplace and a long table decorated with carvings will also fit here. Linen curtains should hang on the windows , the walls will be in the colors of wood, but for the floor it is best to use a board. All this will create an atmosphere far from the big city that has bothered everyone.